Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§460uu–42 Acquisition of lands and interests

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER CVI— - EL MALPAIS NATIONAL MONUMENT AND CONSERVATION AREA › Part Part E— - General Provisions › § 460uu–42

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may get lands or land rights inside the monument and the conservation area by donation, purchase (with donated or appropriated funds), exchange, or transfer from other Federal agencies. Land owned by the State of New Mexico or its local governments can be acquired only by exchange. Congress expects the Secretary to finish acquiring non‑Federal subsurface interests under these areas no later than three full fiscal years after the fiscal year this subchapter was enacted.

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Title 16, §460uu–42

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Within the monument and the conservation area, the Secretary is authorized to acquire lands and interests in lands by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, exchange, or transfer from any other Federal agency, except that such lands or interests therein owned by the State of New Mexico or a political subdivision thereof may be acquired only by exchange. It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary is to complete the acquisition of non-Federal subsurface interests underlying the monument and the conservation area no later than three full fiscal years after the fiscal year of enactment of this subchapter.

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The fiscal year of enactment of this subchapter, referred to in text, is the fiscal year of the enactment of Pub. L. 100–225, which enacted this subchapter, and was approved Dec. 31, 1987.

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16 U.S.C. § 460uu–42

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73